{"id":7232,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/adrenal_medulla\/"},"modified":"2019-07-08T16:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:58:23","slug":"adrenal_medulla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/adrenal_medulla\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrenal medulla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The innermost part of the adrenal gland derived from neural crest cells of the ectoderm that releases the catecholamine hormones epinephrine (adrenalin) and norardrenalin (norepinephrine) into the blood stream in response to stress and fear. \u00a0See figure below for location of adrenal cortex and medulla in an adrenal gland situated on the top of the kidney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image007.png\" width=\"382\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Adrenal cortex,adrenal gland, and adrenal medulla<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"adrenal_cortex\">Adrenal cortex<\/a>, <a href=\"adrenal_glands\">Adrenal glands<\/a>, <a href=\"catecholamines\">Catecholamines<\/a>, <a href=\"ectoderm\">Ectoderm<\/a>, <a href=\"epinephrine_-or_adrenaline-\">Epinephrine (or adrenaline)<\/a>, <a href=\"estrogen\">Estrogen<\/a>, <a href=\"germinal_-or_germ-_layers\">Germinal (or germ) layers<\/a>, <a href=\"neural_crest\">Neural crest<\/a>, <a href=\"neural_tube\">Neural tube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/norephinephrine_-or_noradrenaline\/\">Norepinephrine (or noradrenaline)<\/a>, <a href=\"stress_-or_adrenal-_hormones\">Stress (or adrenal) hormones<\/a>, <a href=\"sympathetic_nervous_system_-sns-\">Sympathetic nervous system (SNS)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The innermost part of the adrenal gland derived from neural crest cells of the ectoderm that releases the catecholamine hormones epinephrine (adrenalin) and norardrenalin (norepinephrine) into the blood stream in response to stress and fear. \u00a0See figure below for location of adrenal cortex and medulla in an adrenal gland situated on the top of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/adrenal_medulla\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adrenal medulla&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9546,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions\/9546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}